I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.
The phrasing didn't work as well.
Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.